11. "Girlfriend and I were looking for a hotel room near the Riverwalk" In response to In response to 1
circa 1997. We went into a bunch of hotels, and they either had no vacancies or were well outside of our price range. The we found the Navarro Hotel.
I asked the front desk clerk if he had any vacancies and he said, "one, but you might want to go look at it first". We went up and checked the room out. The hotel was dingy, run down and in a general state of disrepair, but we were broke, so I said fuck it.
We went back to the room and before we could even get settled in, we heard a sound like a person dragging furniture across a tile linoleum floor, but the hotel was carpeted. Then we saw the figure of a man walk past the bathroom mirror. I grabbed the bags without a word and we walked out the door.
When we got to the lobby, I walked to the desk and the clerk just handed me my cash back. He had it ready. He KNEW we wouldn't be spending the night.